Students taking the computer science course CIS 120 can spend more than an hour waiting to meet a teaching assistant for help on their homework assignments — even though the class has more than 36 full-time TAs. This is just one of the many repercussions of the recent spike in the popularity of programming classes at Penn.

On Sept. 30, California became the first state to ban all-male corporate boards. In Philadelphia, female representation on the highest leadership boards of corporations is gradually increasing, but not at a rate that suggests it will soon follow in California's footsteps.

Students of the Penn Quiz Bowl team returned to campus last weekend triumphant after earning top spots at a national tournament. Now, they are gearing up to compete again this Saturday at the Academic Competition Federation Nationals, which is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Former Penn basketball player Tyrone Gilliams, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for wire fraud schemes in Oct. 2013, was denied early release by a federal judge this week. The latest ruling by United States District Judge Deborah A. Batts means Gilliams, 51, will remain in prison until 2022.

Amid chants of “fight the system,” “Black Lives Matter,” and “gun control,” a large group of School of Social Policy and Practice students and faculty stood outside of the Caster Building in the drizzling rain for the fifth annual on-campus SP2 rally.